> It'd be fun to get a list of best HN discussions (highest karma average per comment perhaps) The now-discontinued SearchYC database had top lists but not the

> It'd be fun to get a list of best HN discussions (highest karma average per comment perhaps) The now-discontinued SearchYC database had top lists but not the particular metric you want. It doesn't show up in the Google cache or archive.org's Wayback Machine (http://top.searchyc.com http://top.searchyc.com) In my opinion, I think some of the best HN discussions have been/are the ones with hundreds of comments, with divergent threads and replies. They are usually sparked by a fairly controversial topic. I can't think of an example right now. However, this API to the HN corpus might be able to get you the data you want (not sure how current it is): http://api.ihackernews.com http://api.ihackernews.com